Strangers, Ordination of. The laws of the early Church forbade the ordination of strangers in any Church to which they did not belong, for the reason that it was the custom generally to oniain such only as were known to all the people, and of whose life and character they were satisfied.
Strangle (pSn, Trv/yw, to chokr). Animals put to death liy strangidatiim. not having the blood prciperly separated from the flesh, could luit therefore be eaten without a vidlatidii of the Noachic precept ((Jen. ix, 4). The primitive Christians abstained from them, principally to avoid giving offence to the Jewish con- verts (Acts XV, 20). See Ai.is<;i:.ma ; Bt.ooi).
Stratford, John, archbishop of Canterbury, and
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earlier bishop of Winchester, was born at Stratford, Warwickshire. Entrlaiul. lie was raised to the arch- bishopric ill 1333. and died in 1348. He was arraigned on a chartje of hi{;h-treasoii in the malversation of sub- sidies levied for tlie French war. Th(> archbishop fled from Ijimbeih, and at Canterbury excomniuiiicated his accuM-rs, the king's councillors. He returned to Lon- don, shrouding himself under the privileges of Parlia- ment, was forced to submit to an investigation before a jurv of his peers, and the (piarrel was settled by an ami- caiiie intervention. .Stratford was a very charitable man and a lenient governor. See Collier, Eccks. Hist, iii, 03- 107.
Stratford, Nicholas, a learned English prelate, was born at Hemel-llcmpste.id, in Hertfordshire, in 1G33, and .admitted into Trinity College, Oxford, in June, \Ghl. where in lG.')t5 he became fellow and master of arts. After taking orders, he was made warden of Manchester College, Lancashire. He was in 1670 made prebendary of Leicester .St. IMargaret, Church of Lincoln; i:i 1073 dean of St. Asaph, at which time he took his degree of D.D., and was appointed chaplain in ordinary to the king. In 1683 he was presented to the rectory of St. Mary's, Aldermaiibiiry, London, and in the follow- ing year resigned his wardenship. He was consecrated bishop of Chester in 1681), holding that office until his death. Feb. 12. 1707. Besides some occasional Sennons, he published, A Discourse concerning the Necessity of Refurnution with respect to the Errors, etc., of the Church of Rome (Lend. 168.5, pt. i, 4to; the 2d pt. fol- loweil) : — l)i,tcourse on the Pope's Supreyyutcy (ibid. 1688, 4to) : — The People's Rif/ht to Read the Holy Scriptures Asserted (ibid. 1688, 4to): — The Lay Christian's Ohliya- tvm to Read the Holy Scriptures (ibid. 1688-89, 4to) :— Examination of Bellarmine's Fourteenth Note concerning the Unhappy Eml of the Church's Enemies. See Chal- mers, Biog. Diet. s. v.
Stratius, in Grecian mythology, was a son of Clym- enus. The latter having been slain by a Tliel)an, Ergi- niis, his successor, imposed on the Tliel)ans an ainuial tribute of a hundred bullocks in punishment. After twenty years, the messengers who were despatched to demand the tribute were sent back by Hercules empty, and with the loss of their hands and noses. Among them was Stratius, who died of his wounds (Pausan. ix, 37,1).
StratobStds, in Grecian mythology, was one of the sdiis iif Elcctryon, all of whom fell in a contest fought with the Fterelaids about their father's herds (Apollod. ii, 4, 0).
Stratonic^ was the name of several persons in (Jrccian mytliology. 1. A daughter of Pleuron and Xauthip[)e, and sister to Sterope ((]. v.) and Leophontes (Apollod. i, 7, 7). 2. A (hiughier of king Thes])ius, and by Hercules the mother of Atromus (ibid, ii, 7, 3).
Stratten, .Foiin V>., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Churcli, was born at Stratford, Conn., in 178,5. He was admitted on trial into the New York Conference in 181 L At the formation of the Troy Conference in 1832, he became one of its members, but the next year was iransferrfd to the New York Conference, in 1843 to the Troy Conference, in 1K4.') to the New York Confer- ence, and in 18.57 to the Troy Conference. In 1X61 he took a siipernimuated relation, and made his home in J.uieHville, N. Y., where he died June 20, 1863. See Afinutfn of Annual Confnences of the M. E. Church, 1861. p. 6'.i.
Stratton, Daniel, a Presbyterian minister, was born at Uridgeton, N. J., .Sept. 28, 1814. He made a profeRsicn of religion in early life, received his academ- ical training in the Lawrenceville High-school, N. J., and graduated at Princelon College in IK.'i.'l. He stud- ied thi'<.l..(;y Ihree years in Princeton Theological .Sem- inary, anil completed his course in I'nion Theoloirical Seminary, Prince Edward Co., Va., in 1837, On April 13,
1837, he was licensed by the West Hanover Presbyter}-, and soon after his licensure started to a Southern field of labor, his steps being directed to Newbern, N. C, where he was ordained and installed by the Orange Presbytery, and where for fifteen years he faithfully l)reached the (Jospel, while with a holy example he illustrated its power. In 18.52 he accepted a call to the Church in Salem, N. J., and for a S|)ace of fourteen years he continued to labor among this people. He died Aug. 24, 1866. ]Mr. Stratton's power as a preacher consisted in appealing to the affections of his hearers. His min- istry was pre-eminently a ministry of love. Again and again were strangers heard to say, "That man tills my ideal of St. John."' Though greatly successful as a preacher, his greatest iiirtuence for good was exerted as a pastor and in social life. In the sick-chamber or the house of mourning he had no superiors, and but few equals. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1867, p. 200. (J. L. S.)